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What is the connection between Adolf Hitler and Magnus Peterson who was jailed for fraud for 13 years? The disgraced millionaire, who ran and wrecked the Weavering Capital Hedge Fund, cheated investors out of millions of dollars. Over $2 million from the fund was used by Peterson to produce a bizarre film about Adolf Hitler. Peterson may be in jail, but his Nazi movie ‘GREY WOLF’, is still cashing in on Weavering hedge fund investors’ losses.

An Investigative journalist reveals the Hitler film scandal hidden behind the financial scandal.

By Laurence de Mello

A major disaster has struck the controversial film ‘Grey Wolf- the escape of Adolf Hitler’. In January 2015 its executive producer, the millionaire financier Magnus Peterson, was jailed for 13 years for fraud.

Following a three-month trial in London, Magnus Peterson was found guilty on eight counts of fraud, forgery, false accounting and fake trade. His hedge fund, Weavering Capital, collapsed, costing investors an estimated US$537 million. The judge handed down one of the toughest sentences of recent times for a white collar crime and Peterson is now locked up in jail.

It’s the latest blow to hit the Nazi movie which claims Adolf Hitler survived World War II and fled to Argentina, where he lived with Eva Braun. The movie – a weird documentary drama costing at least US$2 million and involving 67 actors and a large production staff – was shot on location in Argentina. It has been entangled in legal, financial and editorial troubles for years. But a new wave of scandal threatens – allegations of deliberate plagiarism, non-payment of bills, libel, production budget fraud and scandalous behaviour behind the scenes.

Curiously, the Nazi film Magnus Peterson produced, never featured in his trial. Yet this movie scandal behind the huge financial scandal continues as Peterson’s ‘GREY WOLF‘film is still cashing in.

The movie is based on a controversial book also called GREY WOLF – the escape of Adolf Hitler. Published in 2011, it was written by Gerrard Williams and Simon Dunstan. Critics kicked up a storm, but the book zoomed up the New York Times’ best-seller list. The film version was directed and co-produced in Argentina by one of the book’s author’s, former Sky News editor and close friend of Magnus Peterson, Gerrard Williams.

I was originally alerted to Magnus Peterson’s Hitler production in Buenos Aires in 2009. After relocating here in 2001, I had set about finding something to do after leaving the UK and my factual producer’s job at the bastion of British filmmaking, Pinewood Studios.

Unknown to me I was embarking on a trail – beaten before by writers such as Freddie Forsyth and his The Odessa File, whereI would meet crooks, conmen and journalistic fly-by-nights as exotic and deadly as anything found in a cheap and lurid gangster novel.

Five years into my investigation and while analysing various angles surrounding Martin Bormann’s possible escape; I met the Argentine journalist Abel Basti. An author of 8 books on the subject of Nazi fugitives in Argentina, he had carried out over 25 years of extensive research that looked as if it might support my ODESSA research and specifically, my main focus; whether Hitler’s Deputy and ’Handler’ Martin Bormann had actually arrived in Argentina and not perished in May 1945. By 2008, even though continuing to pursue new leads, I had enough new information to expand my findings into a TV series I was developing – Children of Odessa.

I first came across the name Magnus Peterson in 2009, at the time he was just a producers name on an unconscionable film contract, of which I was asked to review by the co-signatory, Abel Basti. It wasn’t until Peterson’s London Fraud trial in October 2014 and a tough conviction after a 5 year convoluted SFO investigation, that my initial suspicions of Peterson being a crook were officially confirmed.

Peterson’s trial gained priority coverage in the UK press and made worldwide financial headlines. But there was little if any coverage of the misuse of Weavering investor’s cash on the 2007 ‘Hitler’ project in Argentina. The original project entitled Lobo Gris (Grey Wolf) had been masterminded and managed by Peterson’s business partner, Gerrard Williams.

Gerrard Williams’ bio reads well – an international television journalist of 30 years, a duty editor at Reuters Television, a foreign duty editor at the BBC, Sky News, and APTN. The director of a touching 1983 documentary ‘Strength to Cry’ on the Sudan Famine that received, in his own words ‘’International critical acclaim and was broadcast in 30 countries’’. Williams is a man who parades his journalistic credentials like battle honours, yet his dubious activities surrounding the Grey Wolf film and what appears to be a dysfunctional moral compass, have excited more than a little disquiet in the Southern Hemisphere.

Abel Basti, journalist, author and newspaper editor, lives in San Carlos de Bariloche, a snow capped Andes mountain area in Southern Argentina that resembles a remote Bavarian village. Due to Edelweiss scenery and its remoteness from the rest of the world, Bariloche was and is the residence of choice for many German war criminals that used ‘Odessa’ to get out of Europe, as WWII Germany fell into the hands of the allies. Such is the pro-Nazi sentiment in Bariloche; until the late 1950’s the local German school Instituto Primo Capraro proudly flew a big swastika from its flagpole. It was in this picturesque German enclave that a former director of that school, WWII Gestapo officer Erich Priebke lived happily for years and was cited as a ‘wonderful neighbour’, till his 1997 extradition by the Italian courts for his participation in the 1944 German massacre of 335 Roman civilians.

The contract gave Williams and Peterson access to Basti’s ‘connections’ and full use of his extensive archive and his previously published books. The archive included exclusive filmed testimonies from supposed first-hand witnesses, to help Williams with the documentary film Grey Wolf.

I became aware of Williams’ suspect business activities in 2009. After frequently crossing research paths with Abel Basti since 2006, Basti and I had become trusted friends and worked closely together on our investigations. Basti spent many weekends at my old farmhouse in the Buenos Aires outback, plotting trips to Paraguay and sharing unpublished information from elderly witnesses and classified Federal police files. The trust was such that we also discussed a complicated trip to Germany, where I hoped to get Martin Bormann’s eldest son Adolf to agree to a ‘chain of custody’ DNA profile test. I wanted to compare this with the DNA of a woman born in Brazil in 1952, who believes she could be the child of a leading official of WWII Nazi Germany.

It was during one of these weekends over a bottle of good Mendoza wine, that Basti confided his distrust of Gerrard Williams and Magnus Peterson and revealed Gerbil Films failure to pay him monies owed. Basti wanted out of the exclusive contract that had him completely tied up, but which had left him financially bereft for over a year. I offered to examine the Gerbil Films agreement and found various ongoing contractual breaches. The contract was written in English and a full Spanish version had never been made available to Basti, even though he could not speak English. I then aided Basti in formally terminating the contract with Williams and Peterson’s Gerbil Films.

As a result of this action, in 2009 Williams and Peterson lost all rights to use the extensive Basti archive material for their Grey Wolf film project and any spin-offs from such, which would include books. Williams accepted the ending of the contract due to the breaches I had highlighted to Abel and his attorney, who are both non English speakers. Williams responded in writing, stating that he and Peterson were late with monies owed as they had unfortunately been hit by ‘’the world economic crisis’’. Williams and Peterson made one last attempt to keep Basti and his archive material tied up with their production company Gerbil Films Ltd, by presenting Basti with yet another equally unconscionable agreement, which he graciously but firmly refused to sign.

Basti and I then agreed to pool our large research archive and information into the Children of Odessa series. By spring 2011, after 18 months of further investigations and filming extra material to add to what we already had, we could no longer afford to invest our own resources. We then co-partnered with a London production house KPC Media. They agreed to share production costs and pitch an exclusive Children of Odessa pre-sale for a 5 part series to a UK TV network.

All was proceeding well till October 2011, when Gerrard Williams ventured into the world of mainstream book publishing. He was given prime airtime on London’s Sky News to promote his book Grey Wolf. The widely publicised work was distributed by US Publishing giant Sterling/Barnes & Noble, and co-authored with reputed history writer of 50 books, Simon Dunstan. The book controversially argues that Hitler escaped from the Berlin bunker in 1945, having fled from Germany he lived out his life in Argentina with his wife and two daughters, dying in 1962.

When interviewed on Sky News Williams presented the tale of his ‘five-year research’ on the subject. Yet he failed to reveal that the main content of his Hitler escape book was plagiarised from the Argentine journalist Abel Basti. Nor was there any mention that it was financed by money from the Weavering Hedge Fund which later turned out to be stolen.

Only days earlier I flew to London for production and network meetings with our London production partners. But the evening before I was scheduled to fly to Germany to meet with Hitler’s godson, Martin Bormann junior, I received a worrying phone call from my London media agent. He informed me he had just seen an interview on Sky News, where Gerrard Williams had promoted a Grey Wolf book. During the live broadcast, Williams claimed that he and Simon Dunstan were the sole investigators and authors of the content. Williams had gone ahead and dishonestly taken Basti’s research archive to make it into a book, even though he was no longer contractually entitled to do so. My agent stated this book would certainly annul the exclusivity of our Odessa TV series content as pitched to the network. And within days, understandably, network interest ceased.

I delayed my trip to Germany to deal with the fallout, but the damage was done. There was nothing we could do to salvage over 18 months of production work. The Odessa series as presented was blown, and would require a completely new plan to resuscitate it. That would take months.

I have watched the Williams Sky interview on YouTube various times. I wanted to get a grip on this British mainstream media man who gained the confidence of honest people, then plagiarised their work and passed it off as his own. I noted how Williams squirmed when asked a question where he was unsure of the answer. As the research was not his, he was unfamiliar with the whole story. Apart from the plagiarised material, the Grey Wolf book is a patchwork – an amateurish attempt to deal with this controversial subject. If anything, he has damaged the entire essence of Basti’s compelling investigative Hitler work, due to Williams need to sensationalise genuine legitimate questions raised by bona fide findings, with his supposed certain answers. Disgruntled readers of the book rightly argued that Williams had failed to deliver as promised, and had crammed the work with irrelevant world war history in order to fill the pages. One critic claimed – ‘This book has more holes than the Titanic after striking the iceberg.’

Williams did, however, attempt to fill in some of those holes at a later date when he approached my former investigation assistant with an offer of US$20k to access my Martin Bormann files. The young Argentine journalist refused, as his morals are greater than his need for cash.

In spring 2012 Basti and I started collecting evidence to bring legal proceedings through my union, The British Association of Journalists. They agreed to take action against Williams and Barnes & Noble /Sterling for breach of privileged information and plagiarism. In addition, our lawyers claimed a minimum US$130k for our actual physical film production losses brought about by Williams’ theft of exclusive copyrighted materials and breach of confidential information.

It was during this time while investigating Williams’ movements here in Argentina and gathering evidence for our attorneys, that I discovered the Executive Producer Magnus Peterson for the original Grey Wolf filmproject and the Weavering hedge fund financial fraudster Magnus Peterson where one and the same. The estimated £2.5 million cash budget earmarked for the Grey Wolf production had in the main been drawn down in South America from the Hedge Fund, via Uruguayan banks and cash machines. This discovery immediately raised red flags, but especially as while investigating the Grey Wolf production, I also learned that none of the Argentine production staff and admin assistants, including translators, had been paid as agreed.

Only one member of the production team, a British cameraman, managed to get close to payment after taking Williams to court in the UK. The cameraman won his case and was awarded £20,000 of production salary owed. But Williams never turned up at the hearing and never paid. It cost the cameraman £50,000 in court and legal fees just to get a ruling in his favour and to date he has never received a penny. I suspect the cameraman who works for various UK news agencies decided to ‘walk away’ and not get a UK court to enforce the ruling, as he fears that fighting Williams in a public forum would have a detrimental effect on his work commissions due to Williams’ close editorial ties with Sky, BBC, Reuters, Al Jazeera, ESPN and other mainstream UK news and media outlets. It is for that reason I will respect his anonymity.

It seems the SFO paid little attention to Williams during the protracted London criminal trial. But the question does need to asked; Was the film’s multi-million dollar budget deliberately mismanaged by experienced media man Williams? The answer may be found in his hands-on running of the film project; the film lacked all minimal professional production requirements – no formal script or storyboard, no formal accounting, no cost reporting to the executive producer (Peterson), there was not even the vital presence of a professional production manager. In fact, one member of the crew described the day to day production as a ‘shambles’

So where was the $2million Grey Wolf production money spent? We know Argentine production crew and staff were not paid. Were the production accounts for this project managed by Gerrard Williams for Magnus Peterson ever made available to the Weavering investors? If so, it would be interesting to examine them.

After a 14-month analysis of the plagiarism from Basti’s 8 books and archive, TheBritish Association of Journalists senior copyright attorney, prepared a case to file against Williams and the book’s publishers Barnes & Noble. The plagiarism and breach of moral rights was set out in a formal BAJ ‘shot-across-the-bows’ letter in May 2013 to Williams’ London Solicitors ‘Simons, Muirhead & Burton’ and Barnes & Noble corporate Attorneys in New York. Neither office has given a formal reply to date. The case has recently been lodged via London to the Argentine Courts on the advice of a leading British copyright and patents Judge. Lawyers are currently seeking an Argentine court judgement against Williams, which can then be enforced in The Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (IPEC) at The Royal Courts of Justice, London.

‘I must make it emphatically clear as regards that material, that the company ‘Ambito Financiero’ never, either via me or any other authorized person, gave Mr Gerrard Williams any right over that material… it is not possible for any rights to have been given since the exclusive owner of that material is Mr Basti.’ To date Mr Da’Aloia has never received a reply neither from Williams nor Barnes & Noble.

The Argentine Grey Wolf production crew and administrative staff have never sued Williams and Peterson for payment and have grudgingly accepted their losses. They feel it would be almost impossible to file an international case against an intimidating foreign producer and afford the extortionate legal costs and timescales the Argentine legal system would require.

Magnus Peterson has been jailed, but his Gerbil Films Ltd partner Gerard Williams who was financed by Peterson for the Grey Wolf projects with over £2 million of Weavering cash seems to be riding high and dry on the successful sales of the book, which has now been translated into various languages and sold internationally. Williams has added to his Grey Wolf income through the recent publication of the salvaged film material from the original Argentine Grey Wolf film project. The documentary drama, which has been broadcast on Australian TV and issued on DVD, has been distributed in at least 8 countries. Magnus Peterson is named as ‘Producer’ with Williams as ‘Director’ and their names appear together on the IMDb website. Basti has never received a penny in royalties as to the original agreement.

More importantly are the reports of frequent ‘cash runs’ across the Argentine border by boat to the Uruguayan port of Montevideo. Where naïve Argentine production staff were sent as couriers to draw down ‘as much cash as possible’ from multiple cash point machines and Uruguayan banks. It is clear from these allegations that something is seriously amiss behind Gerrard Williams’ Grey Wolf, which requires formal investigation by the Weavering Hedge fund victims.

In 2013 I contacted the chambers of the London law firm fighting for the victims, after I heard that Magnus Peterson was undergoing investigations by the Serious Fraud Office. Unfortunately for the Weavering investors, their London attorneys showed little if any interest and failed to return my calls. However, only weeks later, I was curiously contacted by a former Financial Times and Jane’s Defence correspondent, who was now working in business intelligence investigations out of Bogota. He told me he was aware I was ‘’investigating Williams activities in Argentina’’ and that he had been asked by a ‘client’ to contact me for information regarding the ‘’media man’’ who was ‘’heavily funded by Weavering’’ to which he referred to as a ‘’fraudulent ponzi fund’’.

I had a few conversations with this agent who is currently working for the Brazilian Intelligence Agency (ABIN), who later went on to say that it was ‘’all very strange, to say the least’’ and that he wished to know what my analysis and findings were of a situation where Weavering kept ‘’funneling money into the peculiar Grey Wolf project’’, despite it being a ‘’loss-making venture’’ where ‘’money went missing’’ and where, Williams, had obviously imported funds into Argentina ‘’without declaring them’’. He also wished to know whether Williams had met with any Government officials while here in Buenos Aires and in Uruguay.

I was aware at the time that this British agent was also working for Kroll, the world’s leading risk and security consultancy who operates out of New York and which has extremely close ties with the C.I.A. and U.S. administration. If I were Williams, I would be more than a little concerned to be under such a powerful microscope, unless I had my Grey Wolf production accounts fully in order and above board.

It is ironic that Williams’ weekly cash-runs were taken via the same stretch of river where in 1939 the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee was scuttled by her captain, after being severely damaged by Royal Navy cruisers in the Battle of the River Plate. While Williams used the narrow Buenos Aires to Montevideo maritime route to line his pockets and throw parties with money later found to have been stolen from pension funds, Captain Hans Langsdorff, on the other hand, had a deep sense of honour. The German captain was guilt ridden after committing what naval analysts termed a ‘’grievous tactical error’’. As a consequence, Langsdorffwho hadno choice but toscuttle the mighty ‘Graff Spee’ rather than allow her to fall into enemy British hands, only hours later, agonising with shame, put on his best dress uniform, lay down on his national flag and blew his brains out across a Buenos Aires hotel room.

Magnus Peterson personally made roughly $9.2 million from the Weavering Hedge Fund fraud, but he is now locked up at Her Majesty’s pleasure for the next 13 years for his crimes. Gerrard Williams is estimated to have used over $2 million in cash from the Weavering Fund, while in Argentina, processed through a deliberately mismanaged production, where people are still not paid. He plagiarised people’s’ work and denied their moral rights. He presented and published false information, yet is still unaccountable with a fully inflated ego and professional reputation which remains intact.

Hard working people lost their savings and pensions through Weavering, but the Grey Wolfbook and film royalties – which are technically owned by the author and investigator Abel Basti and the Weavering fund victims, are still rolling in for Williams, Peterson and Barnes & Noble. A sad state of affairs from a British mainstream media newsman of 30 years, whose dubious modus operandi and connections to the Weavering Hedge Fund have to date been ignored by the UK press.

But nothing can sum up Magnus Peterson’s sidekick Gerrard Williams character better than one account of his actions while filming Grey Wolf;

Williams in exchange for a child’s featured acting role in Argentina, offered the young boy a Play-Station rather than money as payment. The child and his parents were happy about this, even though the salary for a featured role should buy several games consoles. Rather than send a production assistant out to Buenos Aires to buy the promised reward, Williams told the child that as the ‘Play-Station’ was ‘So expensive in Argentina’ he would bring it with him on his next trip over from London. Needless to say, that child is now a young man and is still waiting for his promised prize.

ENDS

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Laurence de Mello is a British investigative journalist and factual TV and film producer. A media professional since 1985 she has worked on programs with and for Discovery US, Discovery Europe, The Learning Channel Rai 1&2, NTV Russia, Nat Geo, Berlusconi Networks BBC, Channel 4, etc.,
Laurence de Mello uses the pseudonym Ami de Creighton and is co-author of 'The Mountbatten Report - final edition' with former British Naval spy/assassin John Ainsworth-Davis aka Christopher Creighton.
A member of The British Association of Journalists she is represented by Tony Clayman at Tony Clayman Promotions Limited London. Laurence de Mello divides her year between London and Buenos Aires
Goldeneye logo art and design by Mardi Coeur de Lion http://mardi.ca/

A wonderful article Laurence! … People who want ot find out more about this scandal should read the one star reviews of the book “GREY WOLF – the Escape of Adolf Hitler” by Gerrard Willimas and Simon Dunstan on Amazon’s US site – Amazon.com – and their British site – Amazon-uk. The movie has only a few comments, but the dreadful book on which it is based has attracted savage criticism and many more revelations. And I’m told there are a lot more to come! So anxious times for the people who dreamed up this scam.

If someone out there who uses the pen name ‘Thighmail” sees this article will they please get in touch with Laurence or myself. We have seen your report. But since then there has been silence! As you know there have been major developments and we would appreciate more information.

You will see that Grey Wolf Media, the company that owns the film is due to be compulsory wound up, as no accounts or annual returns have been submitted for 2015. In the last published accounts (2014) the company owed its creditors £187k ($267k). If this happens this will be the third of the companies associated with this film that have been would up leaving creditors and investors unpaid. This will also prevent people pursuing claims against the company in relation to the film. The film has been sold in numerous countries and shown on the TV, surely its making money. Why is the company in debt and not filling accounts?

Hello Laurence :–)
It has been a year of awakening for many of us.
To think that there are so many fraudsters out here can
sometimes be disquieting to say the least. I have seen a
fair portion of these myself. Stealing others stories to profit
from them.
I am interested in the “double-entandre” type lives of these spies.
This site is like that, kinda sorta.. A world of ghost, goblins and spooks.
Best, D

My compliments on your professional report , Mr. De Mello…It’s a pity so many unscrupulous adventurers are trying to profit from this sensational story about Hitler’s escape, and I’m afraid we will see more of them as time goes by. As for me, I have complete confidence in Sharkhunters’Harry Cooper’s reports on this subject. He takes the time and spends money from his own pocket to visit Argentina every year, traveling from Patagonia to the northern Brazilian border, searching places, interviewing reliable witnesses and still finding surprising news regarding Hitler’s movements in the late 40’s and 50’s in Argentina. Abel Basti is a serious and honest investigative writer, who collaborates in Cooper’s research.
Let’s stick to these two gentlemen to hear about further news on Hitler’s life in Argentina !
Best regards

Barry Depp … Stop swearing and behaving like an ignorant guttersnipe. You know nothing about this subject. Your threats we despise. What we cannot do for ourselves the law shall do for us. Shut up and grow up. You’re making a fool of yourself.

Thankyou to share this updating regarding this chapter of the history. There are many people to gather money telling texts and books without any portion of true. It is required from us the researchers to sort it out the false and the true stories and books. By the way I am buying the books OPJB in order to discover the connection you mention in WWII later on I will comment about this. BR HLS

You may have noted the sudden activity around this blog in the last few days that is because Gerard Williams has taken to social media talking about it.

On the 12h of August he went into full Donald Trump mode and told his several thousand friends and followers on his public Facebook feed “I need a top class hacker to kill an internet blog/page? Anyone from the dark side willing to help? IT’s in a good cause.”

Then on the 15th he identified that blog as this one, and made a number of personal attacks on the blog and blogger. In particular he said on his public Facebook feed that he was “being damaged by a female ‘investigative Journalist’ who gets off about (sic) libellous lies about me” and asks them if he should “rip the bitch apart in every possible way” and later spurs his followers on by saying “Thanks to all those who have helped. But this woman needs taking down.

This is typical of what I have seen before, rather than dealing with the substantive issues and arguments he has resorted to threats and insults. However, given the contentious subject matter and as he clearly has a fair few fantasists, Neo-Nazi’s and others rapid conspiracy theorists following him, this is highly inappropriate and dangerous language. I suggest you take a copy of it as soon as you can in case anything happens. You may want to report it to the authorities. Be careful.

I also note that he uses gender specific insults and gender discriminatory language. This is a bit rich given his constant waving of his, and his fathers, socialist credentials on social media. Interesting that in his other post yesterday when he complains about being booked “on Air France Cattle class” and having to have to sit “in the middle of a three seater” and that the he was “Seriously unimpressed with Air France Cabin crew, very cheap with the [free] drinks…and All of a mature age as well.” How dare those women age! Spoken like a true socialist, his Father would be proud.

Williams is a twit ~ a dangerous one maybe ~ but no better/worse than some running for office outside Argentina. Doesn’t anyone err on the side of humble any more? Sad Time. Switching focus – just recently found out about Mengele’s get away. Born in Hamburg in 1955 I feel shame.

Forgive my ignorance but you can’t be much of an investigative journalist if you believe Hugh Trevor-Roper’s account of events which Grey Wold correctly dismisses as fiction. Also, if you have all this evidence hwy don’t you produce it rather than trying to smear somebody on social media. Without appearing to be too cynical about matters its as if Williams’ digging around in South America is too uncomfortable for some and there’s a lash out at it. Sort of things the intelligence agencies do to discredit someone if they appear to be getting too close. Some of the other posters on here really ought to moderate their puerile language. Just an observation, that’s all.

Yes, we will forgive the posters ignorance, of which he is blatantly aware. But is that sufficient excuse that he dares to post without having taken the time to check the background or the facts? Therefore blatantly a blind Minion post, proven by pathetic attempts to discredit with totally false comments; ”trying to smear someone on social media” and ”if you believe Hugh Trevor-Roper’s account of events” -?

Suggestion – Maybe Mr Williams supporters should ask him to publish the *”cease or desist” letter he supposedly sent in response to this page….The one he dishonestly invented and mentioned on his FB page…. in feigned disgust I might add….He will not show it, because contrary to what he wrote/claims, it was never received by the author of this page or her attorneys, nor sent, let alone written, it does not exist – and why does it not exist? this letter of indignation that was supposedly sent? because Mr Williams knows damn well the content of this page is all true and he would not dare take this to a legal forum where he can be challenged… and lose, because he will be exposed for his dishonesty and chronic nefarious M.O.

On the contrary, attorney’s (who are fully participant on the Basti/Sterling/Williams/de Mello plagiarism case) stated there was more than sufficient evidence on Mr Williams FB, to file a defamation case against Williams for what he has falsely claimed against the author of this page.

*A cease and desist letter is a document sent to an individual or business to halt purportedly illegal activity (“cease”) and not take it up again later (“desist”).

HI Mrs Laurence just to intruduce a pair of comments. Argentine goverment was not Pro Nazi. and Peron was not a dictator. Just it. I red the most books you mention here. As well OPJB and the Mountbaten report. Thankyou to share this concepts. All the best.

You disagree with my statement that Peron was a ‘Dictator,’ well yes he was Hector. The definition of a dictator is a leader that has total power over a country, which Peron certainly did. Proof of this can be found by the fact that after Peron came to power, he severely restricted existing constitutional liberties and literally rewrote the law to allow his reelection in 1951. And let us not also forget, that he was full Colonel before he became President and had joined the super secret military lodge ‘Officers Group’ (Grupo de Oficiales Unidos, GOU, P2), (Licio Gelli and co) that engineered the 1943 coup to overthrow a civilian government. (irrelevant that it was ineffective and corrupt)

Peron was an extremely clever and an expert political animal as you must know, his rise to power was because he managed to influence military regimes who became increasingly under his canny influence. Then as a protégé of Pres. Gen. Edelmiro J. Farrell, Perón became minister of war and then Vice President.
Being a protege of Farrell, I find it hard that you can deny the facts and how these men came to power – which was through a coup d’état. Yet Peronist historiography refuses to call Farell and Peron ‘dictators, which they were..” Wolves in sheeps clothing comes to mind.’

On the Pro Nazi point I find it startling that you can even deny such a blatant truth! Peron gave refuge to many high ranking Nazi’s who were wanted by the Nuremberg Trials commission (even though that was a total farce and the western Allies were doing deals and protecting the very people they were supposed to be putting on trial) .

Between 1946 and 1949 Juan Perón created the commission “allegados” whose job was to organise the safe passage and reception of Nazi’s escaping from post war Europe.
Rodolfo (Rudy) Freude a close aide of Peron’s, was responsible for setting this up and is named as the man that ran/organised Odessa in Argentina. This was confirmed to me during one of many conversations I had with a former ADC to Peron (and 5 other Presidents) Commissioner Jorge Silvio Colotto.

( But it was not just political but the big interest to Peron was Nazi German financial investment into Argentina.

For example (and there are hundreds to choose from) Mercedes Benz Argentina, was funded with Nazi money and set up by the Argentine empresario Jorge Antonio. Antonio was not only a very close personal friend of Peron, but also one of his advisors. Peron gave the project his full blessing.

Its a shame one can not insert docs and images here. As there are so many I would like to add……..just to make my point more than clear.

HI Laurence. Thankyou for your saavy reply I know you live here in our country. Or at least half and half. Good to know.

You must know Peron went for 3 years in 1938 on Europe visiting many countries between them Germany, Italy, Switerland and others. He become influenced by the local political policies of that countries Italy and Germany. This does not mean in any form that he was a Nazi or Fascist.

In Argentina there were many people arriving after the war. Many of them were of different citizens. By the way the first country who reckon Israel in 1948 was Argentina.
You know the reason because oposition call him a <> was because he was not aligned with allies in any form or any way. And he disrespects the intended tentatives to push him at their favor. i.e. Britains and USA ( Spruille Braden). I lived his era, despite I was too young so nobody told me the history I lived on.

Just to add a bit more. As you perfectly must knows Germans were arriving in South amerika since 1500 Ulrich Smidel. Later on in 1908 Militar Generals trained Latam Militars, Meanwhile since 1800 german inmigrants were coming here. German stream inmigration is the third in Argentina, in 1943 one of our Militar coups was trend to Germany early before Peron. I am telling this just because was not Peron who called the Germans to come in Argentina. They came and fill at home here pretty much before. Their network infrastructure was pretty important here ORgaT , Red Bolivar, Enclaves, Ettapendienst and spy activities much before 1945. In 1918 A German fleet try to recuperate our Malvinas from the British. A failed intent.

Conclusion. We were pretty good benefitiated with the aeronautical technicals and engineers after the war. The 98 German firms arrived after the Maison Rouge meeting together with Martin Bormann. (I guess you know very well (not personally I mean)) become more than 400 at the present. Between all this German parade arriving some key persons to Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Brasil, as MB, Heinrich Gestapo Muller, Joseph Mengele, etc etc. All this made part of the huge top list extreme secret agreement wich included the Fuhrer itself.

Sorry not to agree with your concepts, by the way it is higlhy interesting to get in touch with this blog you mounted regarding this matter.

Gracias Hector! Yes, you are absolutely correct in that the Germans were coming here many years before. I’m not blaming Peron, but he was certainly pro Nazi. Saying he was neutral does not change the fact that Peron willingly helped get fake documents for many of these men, with the specific intention to help them avoid capture by the West, That is not exactly neutrality. But maybe he just felt the British and US stance was hypocrisy – especially as they were ”brain draining” Nazi Germany ”Operation paperclip” and smuggling monsters like Klaus Barbie to safety, so he could work for the CIA hunting down ”commies” such as El Che in Central and Southern America.
Saludos.

This is a fascinating story – I don’t know Williams or this Lawrence guy but Williams comes across as pretty straight forward on the TV progs I see him on. This Lawrence, who I gather is a woman (very confusing) seems completely anally obsessed by the whole affair. Am I alone in suspecting that there is an agenda here and that there are still powerful people for whom the possibility that Hitler escaped must not be known ? The amount of time and energy that Lawrence expends on this is strange and suspicious……….

Dear seebacoop (anonymous of course) thank you for the comment, but you are completely out of touch, no agenda, anally obsessed! (curious comment). However, there is legal action (court proceedings) in motion, issued by Abel Basti (business partner) and myself against Williams and his publishers. (ongoing since 2013) The filing for our case was approved and prepped for the Argentine courts by the senior copyright attorney at The British Association of Journalists and the guidance of one of the world’s leading copyright attorney/ Judge – who is Anglo-Argentine and resides in London – He is the co-author of what is considered the definitive guide to modern copyright law worldwide –

The case files were prepped in London after months of legal analysis by the two attorneys above and then sent back to lawyers filing at the Argentine courts in 2015 – to get a plagiarism ruling in the Argentine Jurisdiction of Bariloche on the advice of the British legal team – as it would prove astronomically expensive and logistically impractical to hold a trial in London, as most of the witnesses are in Argentina. We are now awaiting the judge here in Argentina. (the courts here are painfully slow) Then the ruling will be taken back to the London Courts for enforcement, using the British bundles prepped by the BAJ and Prescott – which forms the legal argument to support the Argentine action in motion and hopeful ruling. The amount of time I spend on this! I conducted a legitimate investigation for a case – Williams plagiarized work and published files from Abel Basti and claimed they were his own work. We incurred massive losses due to his dishonesty as did people who worked on the film project here. He then proceeded to profit from the work of others, denying them their moral rights and due credits. Is that honest in your view? Apart from the legal aspect, what Williams has done, is risk making any genuine research on the possible Hitler escape look ridiculous! He has used a patchwork of errors and inventions to fill in the gaps, where he has not had access to legitimate research (apart from the files he swiped) and in effect has ridiculed this topic. Yes, it is a great shame Williams interest in this topic is less than his greed. Maybe you should read the evidence on the many links on the article. before you make unqualified comments. Thankyou. I genuinely do hope that helps clear up your blatant confusion/suspicions. Regards.

So complicated – and boring ! What we readers/observers need is for investigators like you and Williams and others to buckle down and get to the truth instead of fighting over the scraps about which we are not interested – or is it just the money ? Find out about Bormann and Hitler and tell us. I haven’t read any of the books associated with this – only seen the History channel programmes and documentaries. For better or worse Williams comes across as a principled investigator and has opened the way to possibilities – I don’t see anything that cannot legitimately be in the hands of anyone who explores this case..
I read the OP JB book years ago – fascinating story – but in the secret world there is as much untrue as true. Only some will know.
It seems to me that the amount of time and energy expended in pursuing your case will take a toll on your health and happiness and divert you from a more productive course of action – but I’m just a casual observer and have no axe to grind. If you come to Andalucia some time call in and see me – not anonymous to friends !

seebacap … You say: ‘I haven’t read any of the books associated with this – only seen the History channel programmes and documentaries.’

Then I should start reading some books – and fast. You are arguing form a position of total ignorance. Being ‘a casual observer’ won’t do.

Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide in the Berlin bunker of 30 April 1945. There’s no need to waste your time watching programs about Hitler escaping abroad at the end of WW2. It never happened. No serious historian, or institution, argues he did.

Read some authoritative biographies and histories and they will put you straight. If you are really interested in this subject then read “THE LAST DAYS OF HITLER – Legend, Evidence and Truth” by Anton Joachimsthaler.

Finally visit the PipeLine website and look at their articles on the History Channel’s Hitler survival programs – particularly “THE BIG READ: CARRY ON HUNTING HITLER IN APRIL 30, 2016”. You will find it here:-

Since Williams and Lawrence are quite clearly working conscientiously to the same end and business failings may not be a ‘wrong doing’ then it could be to everyone’s advantage to combine their undoubted talents………………….’by their fruits ye shall know them’ or have I missed something ?

Christopher!! So complicated – and boring? Excuse me, I don’t waste my time on this, I filed a case in 2013 and the lawyers are dealing with it, I wrote a post about the dishonesty of Williams!! I only came here today after months, as I was pinged that I need to ”review” various comments – and I have the good manners to come and reply from time to time when I hear there are comments. Just a question; if someone came into your office at “Nuthurst” swiped all your images, cameras, audio/visual interviews, files etc – then went and used them successfully to publish a book and court a TV series using your work…….what would you do? I support Basti as a key witness to this disgraceful theft! I do not give a damn if Hitler survived or not. My research is focused on Bormann, the real player. I worked with Ainsworth-Davis for many years and have NEVER cashed-in on that.(even though I have had and have many opportunities to do so) I believe in fair play – I abhor CHEATS. and just for the record……..if you have little attention span and are not prepared to read the BORING FACTS – DON’T make comments on assumption. Williams IS DISHONEST! Espero que este es claro ahora! Gracias! P.S Ainsworth-Davis is legitimate.

I can only say that the dispute you have with Williams is unfortunate and not something that I would take sides with since I have no reason to know the truth of the matter. I am disappointed that Hitler is of no interest to you and won’t trouble you with the lead that I came across concerning Eva and Spain. It could be more Williams’ line of work. It seems that as time passes we discover more that we do not know. What are your thoughts on the Nazi/Antarctica revelations and the disclosure that is said to be imminent concerning what has been found there ? You can call me Chris – only father used the long word – a sign he was angry………

Thank you. ‘Chris’ – the last I heard about EB was that she as being treated at the German Hospital in BsAs – but that was about 14 years ago. I agree there is absolutely NO EVIDENCE as to AH’s survival, none whatsoever. So sorry Roger, as much as I respect your amazing body of work (and he has a very significant one Chris) and as much as you hate this debate, there is ZERO EVIDENCE Hitler perished in Berlin in 1945 – But Roger and I agree on many, many things. 🙂

Lawrence, on your last comment do I understand correctly – your focus and interest is on Bormann – but are you open minded about Hitler’s survival ? And, EB – Eva Braun you heard was treated where ? Bs As – I am not so worldly after all …..what/where is that and surely if your investigations lead you to think that H and B escape is at least possible why is that not part of your search ? Or, have I misunderstood completely and your only interest is in supporting the Basti chap against Williams and the actual story is of no interest ? Chris

Hi Chris, my focus has always been on Bormann, if you had read some of evidence I had attached in links on the original post/article (at least read the letter sent by the BAJ to Williams publishers – will answer lots of your questions) you would not need to ask me. My support of Basti is because I personally lost over US$130 K on production costs due to Williams publishing of archive which he had no rights to.
I have always focused on Bormann and Basti focused on AH. If you have been following the H.H. series, you will see a section of interview I conducted here in Buenos Aires with the former chief of the federal police, where I ask him about Bormann. (I have never seen it to be honest, but am told it’s in season 2 ep. 5.)

Bormann has always been my focus because I know he survived – I also know he was taken out by John Ainsworth-Davis (although there are many errors in the book OpJB – but only because JAD was given info on a ‘need to know’ basis and he even agreed with me, when I told him why his theory on MB being buried in UK and living with some woman there is incorrect) and survived till around 1968-70.

Of course I do not believe there is any evidence to support AH dying in Berlin in 1945. And yes there is much compelling evidence to the contrary, why else would I be working with Basti? And yes, I was given some very worrying information here in BsAs (Buenos Aires) about EB being treated here. But for many reasons I stay focused on Bormann and do not spend time on AH…….apart from the fact being the daughter of a former RN Submariner, (cold war – conventional) I like to think that I understand the rules of engagement and reasonable judgement.

Hi Lawrence, sorry I did not read your original post properly and can see that my recent queries were all answered earlier. I can understand your choice to focus on your particular interest but if as a casual aside you would be interested in my little EB story which might just fill a small part of the puzzle then I can share it with you. I have spent some hours on it but have no reason to delve deeper but perhaps it should be on the record somewhere in case it becomes important. You could email if interested chris at seebafilms dot co dot uk

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3) “Buyer Beware – Fantasy History!” – UPDATED SEPTEMBER 2013. By Roger Clark on 16 October 2011. A long and detailed study of why the Hitler escape theory is wrong.

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What you saw on TV and the reality are very different. I would remind you that the History Channel spent over $30 million on their 16 hour-long programs called “Hunting Hitler” in which Gerrard Williams appeared. And guess what? They failed to find Hitler, or Eva Braun, despite Mr Williams. If you read the Amazon reviews you will see why! All is revealed!

I don’t see reviews as being authoritative – have even written some myself and I have not seen any ‘expert ‘ writings that hold any water. There is no ‘evidence’ one way or the other about the Hitler survival or to put it another way, there is just as much to show he survived as perished.
The History progs show quite clearly that he could have escaped and that is the point and their value. Vilifying Williams and the team is irrelevant.
Now, if we the sheeple can be misled for 70 years about Borman despite all the so called expert evidence and the digging up of his planted dental record jaw bone in Berlin, then one can just as easily accept that Hitler and Eva survived since, as you say, they have so far failed to find them.

Observing the strength of feeling voiced to ‘bury’ him I am even more convinced that there is an agenda. By chance I came across some information about Eva Braun and Spain that seemed worthy of following up and wanted to put it in the hands of someone like Williams or Lawrence since I have not the time or inclination myself. But it seems they both have other things on their mind.
Meanwhile, I am open minded.

So seebacap …”I don’t see reviews as being authoritative”. Have you read them? You dismiss Prof McKale out of hand although he’s an expert on the subject and written a book about it?

You dismiss Jefferson’s meticulous examination of the way the “Grey Wolf” writers have misused sources?

You dismiss my 5,000 word article where I quote numerous experts and world class institutions as irrelevant? You don’t believe any of them?

You say: ‘ I have not seen any “expert”‘ writings that hold any water.’ … Ye gods! You have never read ANY serious biographies of Hitler, or history books? None at all? You dismiss them all?!

You say: ‘There is no ‘evidence’ one way or the other about the Hitler survival or to put it another way, there is just as much to show he survived as perished.’

This is untrue. No major historian or historical institution argues Hitler escaped. The evidence is not evenly balanced. It overwhelming supports the argument that Hitler and Eva died in the Berlin bunker. I challenge you to name authoritative historians and institutions that claim Hitler escaped. Go on – do it.

You say you are ‘open minded.’ No … you are ignorant and ill-read. You have made no study of this subject. That is why you are peddling conspiracy theory nonsense.

You say: ‘The History progs show quite clearly that he {Hitler} could have escaped and that is the point and their value.’

Yes, Elvis could have been the first man to step on the moon. But ‘could’ is not the same as did. Unless you can provide proof you’d be better off sticking to Neil Armstrong. In the end after spending more than $30 million on 16 hours of programs the History Channel failed to provide any proof that Hitler escaped. If they had it would have made world headlines. It hasn’t. The programs are worthless.

You say: ‘Vilifying Williams and the team is irrelevant.’ It’s not a question of vilifying them. It’s a question of analyzing how well they did their job – how well they handled the evidence. If you read the three articles on the PipeLine website you will see they fail.

You say: ‘I am even more convinced that there is an agenda.’ … There is! The agenda is to expose frauds and point out to where people can find reliable information.

But conspiracy theorists are not prepared to do the reading, or study evidence. Their ignorance inhibits serious debate.

For God sake do some proper reading before posting any more comments. You are not up to speed with this subject in any way.

Hi Roger, your strength of feeling on this matter and the amount of energy you expend is very worrying. With time you will learn that most ‘History’ and the ‘experts’ who write it are invariably shown to be flawed. None of your ‘so called’ experts were there and so they have no more credibility than you or I. If you have worked within a news network you will know that there is always wrong information in a story, either through human error or design. Like Major Hogan, my coat buttons up tight over a number of other duties and suggesting that I am ignorant because I hold a view you disagree with is narrow minded. Now I do agree with you on one point and encourage you to participate in a mass debate in order to bring it out into the open ………….
“Methinks thou dost protest too much”

seebacap… You find the time and energy I spend on this subject ‘”very worrying”. NO!.. . I edited history books in publishing, worked in Fleet Street and then spent 20 years working on the staff of the BBC as a producer and broadcaster in news, current affairs, politics and features. I produced more radio programs about WW2 than nearly anyone of my generation. I interviewed countless survivors, historians etc. I know about the subject. That’s why I write about it.

When it comes to fraudulent books such as “GREY WOLF – the escape of Adolf Hitler” I decided to write my review in the same way I do a BBC program – look at a wide range of books, including the latest research, consult word class authorities whom I quote and go through the book line by line to see whether the authors produced any convincing evidence. They failed. On top of that Williams behaved in an extraordinary manner which I described in the review and my PipeLine article.

You say: ‘None of your ‘so called’ experts were there and so they have no more credibility than you or I.’ … Wrong argument. I wasn’t on board the “Titanic” but I know it struck an iceberg in 1912 and sank. There were hundreds of survivors and two public inquiries – one in the USA, the other in the UK – that produced thousands of pages of evidence and countless press reports. On top of that the wreck was found in 1985.

Just because we don’t know everything about an event doesn’t mean we know nothing. Or everything is invalidated because there are flaws and contradictions. There are conflicting reports about where the captain was last seen. Did a man get off dressed as a woman? I don’t know. In the end we know the liner struck and iceberg and sank and there’s a mountain of evidence to prove it if you know where to look.

I wasn’t in Pompeii in AD 79 but I know Mount Vesuvius erupted and buried the city.

Now you may know nothing about the “Titanic” or Pompeii. But you shouldn’t judge other peoples’ knowledge by your ignorance. It is untrue to suggest I am narrow minded when it comes to the death of Hitler and Eva. On the contrary I was so startled by the claims that they had survived that I decided to investigate the subject from scratch to see if they were true. The survivalists failed to convince. The mainstream historians proved right. Conspiracy theorists, on the other hand, refuse to do proper research and badmouth those who do. CTs should do some proper reading and find out about the subject instead of taking their information from scurrilous sources and the discredited History Channel.

I have heard it all before – renowned scholars are all frauds. The only people to be trusted are wacky amateurs. Sorry, they fail to convince.

Roger, you and your ‘scholars’ CANNOT prove to me that Hitler and Braun died in the bunker so save your energy. But Williams and co can and have shown that it was possible for him to escape. I have served as a British Army Officer and an RAF officer and seen and experienced things a mere hack will never be allowed to know. I have a training in press relations and have subsequently produced news for all the major ‘fake news’ networks. I studied Military History for three years with Keegan, Brett James and Peter Young and maintained a life-long awareness. The point about MSM which you may have been infected by is not so much what they say but very often what they don’t say. I have had legitimate stories in the public interest squashed/hidden because the editor has to follow the deceitful party line. Gradually the public are becoming more aware of this and even media like the BBC have lost transparency. Just loved the time when the BBC newsdesk, whilst speaking with Jane Standley, their New York reporter, announced the collapse of WTC 7 twenty minutes before time to her obvious confusion. It was in shot behind her and still standing. Now, if you found, like your flagship example the Titanic, the remains of a genuine Hitler and Braun in the ground under the bunker, you could say that they died there and did not escape. You would be dishonest if you then reported that they committed suicide because you could not know unless you had been present when that was supposed to have taken place. And, no one has claimed to be present in the room when H and B expired – it appears that the poor doubles were rolled in the carpets and partly burned but I feel more sorry for the dog – Blondi, poisoned but again, no reports of a body – the 93 year old nurse says the death of the dog upset them more than the others – but perhaps it made it to Chile………….
You can believe what you want to believe – but I have an open mind because no one has produced the sort of evidence that I require…………

seebacap … You are a lost soul. You refuse to read three one star reviews on Amazon, let alone any scholarly books on the subject. You refuse even to look at “The Last Days of Hitler: The Legends, the Evidence, the Truth” by Anton Joachimsthaler and Helmut Bogler, let alone any standard biography or history. You are in no position to make a sound judgement on this subject.

I would be more impressed if any of the survivalists could provide convincing evidence that Hitler and Eva lived – photos, documents, interviews, artifacts, DNA, graves, The conspiracy theorists disagree on how and when they escaped, where they lived and how and when they died. One CT argues Hitler ended up in Indonesia, donned a white coat, became a hospital administrator dispensing free medicine to the poor and converted to Islam. Yes, Hitler became a Muslim! Another argues he fled to Brazil, went gold prospecting, married a black woman and died at the age of 94.

Are we seriously meant to believe that Hitler, who was a human wreck by the end of WW2 and needed constant medical attention, just took off without any of his essential staff? It makes no sense.
And the survivalists provide no convincing evidence he escaped. After 30 April 1945 no one ever had an intelligent talk with Adolf Hitler. No one took his photo.

Even that controversial anti-Establishment figure, David Irving, says Hitler and Eva died in Berlin in 1945.

The questions you are asking now were asked decades ago by proper investigators and the matter was settled. You are pursuing phantoms.